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Post-Fire Management of Shrublands

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Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests

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Abstract

Mediterranean shrublands occupy extensive areas and represent important ecosystems providing unique provisioning, regulatory and cultural services. These ecosystems historically have been frequently affected by wildfires. In general, Mediterranean-shrublands are recognized as highly resilient to fire as a consequence of the ability of their plant species to recover from fire by means of resprouting from fire-resistant structures or from fire-protected seeds. So, in many cases shrublands can recover through natural processes after fire. However, when there is a great risk of soil erosion the practice of emergency planting with herbaceous species may be applied with positive results. In shrublands dominated by obligate seeders, an appropriate management strategy would be to transform them into more resilient communities, i.e. by favoring or artificially introducing resprouting species. Also, another effective management strategy would be to use shrubland communities for grazing by domestic and wild animals so that the fuel loads are controlled minimizing the risk of future fires and decreasing their intensity while economic returns are ensured for rural people.

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Research data reported here were obtained in the research projects: GRACCIE (Consolider-Ingenio 2010, CSD2007-00067), FIREMED (AGL2008-04522/FOR). CEAM is supported by the Generalitat Valenciana and the Fundación Bancaja. JCYL LE021A08 and MCYT CGL2006-10998-C02-01/BOS. We would like to thank to Margarita Arianoutsou and Francisco Moreira for their valuable comments to help to improve the first versions of this manuscript.

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    Jaime Baeza & Victor Santana

  3. Laboratory of Rangeland Ecology, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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Calvo, L., Baeza, J., Marcos, E., Santana, V., Papanastasis, V.P. (2012). Post-Fire Management of Shrublands. In: Moreira, F., Arianoutsou, M., Corona, P., De las Heras, J. (eds) Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2208-8_12

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